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The commercialization of LLM applications is the next frontier in online advertising, with LLM-native advertising emerging as a promising paradigm by integrating ads into LLM-generated content. However, classic mechanisms are no longer…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chujie Zhao , Qun Hu , Shiping Song , Dagui Chen , Han Zhu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Recommendation systems power engagement and monetization across feeds, ads, and short-video platforms, but translating the latest advances in Large Language Models into Recommendation Systems (RecSys) gains remains rare, particularly in…

In sponsored search, advertisement (abbreviated ad) slots are usually sold by a search engine to an advertiser through an auction mechanism in which advertisers bid on keywords. In theory, auction mechanisms have many desirable economic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Bowei Chen , Jun Wang , Ingemar J. Cox , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

Sponsored search positions are typically allocated through real-time auctions, where the outcomes depend on advertisers' quality-adjusted bids - the product of their bids and quality scores. Although quality scoring helps promote ads with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Mohammad Rashid , Omid Rafieian , Soheil Ghili

We conduct experiments with algorithmic pricing agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs). In oligopoly settings, LLM-based pricing agents quickly and autonomously reach supracompetitive prices and profits. Variation in seemingly…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-09 Sara Fish , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Ran I. Shorrer

We design fair sponsored search auctions that achieve a near-optimal tradeoff between fairness and quality. Our work builds upon the model and auction design of Chawla and Jagadeesan \cite{CJ22}, who considered the special case of a single…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Shuchi Chawla , Rojin Rezvan , Nathaniel Sauerberg

In sponsored search, a number of advertising slots is available on a search results page, and have to be allocated among a set of advertisers competing to display an ad on the page. This gives rise to a bipartite matching market that is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-09 Gagan Aggarwal , S. Muthukrishnan , David Pal , Martin Pal

In the field of computational advertising, the integration of ads into the outputs of large language models (LLMs) presents an opportunity to support these services without compromising content integrity. This paper introduces novel auction…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Sébastien Lahaie , Keivan Rezaei , Suho Shin

Sponsored search auctions are commonly modeled as an assignment of a fixed set of slots (positions) to a set of advertisers, with welfare maximization being reducible to a standard matching problem. Motivated by modern ad formats, we study…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Eleni Batziou , Georgios Birmpas , Georgios Chionas , Piotr Krysta

How will generative AI pay for itself? Unless charging users for access, selling advertising is the only alternative. Especially in the multi-billion dollar web search market with ads as the main source of revenue, the introduction of a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ines Zelch , Matthias Hagen , Martin Potthast

Click models are an important tool for leveraging user feedback, and are used by commercial search engines for surfacing relevant search results. However, existing click models are lacking in two aspects. First, they do not share…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Dinesh Govindaraj , Tao Wang , S. V. N. Vishwanathan

As commerce shifts to digital marketplaces, platforms increasingly monetize traffic through Sponsored Shopping auctions. Unlike classic ``Sponsored Search", where an advertiser typically bids for a single link, these settings involve…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Paul Dütting , Yuhao Li , Renato Paes Leme , Kelly Spendlove , Yifeng Teng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to revolutionize automated traceability by overcoming the challenges faced by previous methods and introducing new possibilities. However, the optimal utilization of LLMs for automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Alberto D. Rodriguez , Katherine R. Dearstyne , Jane Cleland-Huang

Sponsored search ads appear next to search results when people look for products and services on search engines. In recent years, they have become one of the most lucrative channels for marketing. As the fundamental basis of search ads,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chaozhuo Li , Bochen Pang , Yuming Liu , Hao Sun , Zheng Liu , Xing Xie , Tianqi Yang , Yanling Cui , Liangjie Zhang , Qi Zhang

Internet search results are a growing and highly profitable advertising platform. Search providers auction advertising slots to advertisers on their search result pages. Due to the high volume of searches and the users' low tolerance for…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David J. Martin , Johannes Gehrke , Joseph Y. Halpern

Large language models (LLMs) struggle on processing complicated observations in interactive decision making tasks. To alleviate this issue, we propose a simple hierarchical prompting approach. Diverging from previous prompting approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Abishek Sridhar , Robert Lo , Frank F. Xu , Hao Zhu , Shuyan Zhou

Auction design for the modern advertising market has gained significant prominence in the field of game theory. With the recent rise of auto-bidding tools, an increasing number of advertisers in the market are utilizing these tools for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Changfeng Xu , Chao Peng , Chenyang Xu , Zhengfeng Yang

Recommender systems have become integral to our digital experiences, from online shopping to streaming platforms. Still, the rationale behind their suggestions often remains opaque to users. While some systems employ a graph-based approach,…

Sponsored search is an indispensable business model and a major revenue contributor of almost all the search engines. From the advertisers' side, participating in ranking the search results by paying for the sponsored search advertisement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Li He , Liang Wang , Kaipeng Liu , Bo Wu , Weinan Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into search engines to provide natural language responses tailored to user queries. Customers and end-users are also becoming more dependent on these models for quick and easy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Aounon Kumar , Himabindu Lakkaraju